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kyleneideck / BackgroundMusic

Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.
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Komplete Audio 6ch 24 bit integer distorted sound #206

Open m41w4r3exe opened 5 years ago

m41w4r3exe commented 5 years ago

Hey, and thanks for the great app!

However I couldn't manage to make it work with a sound card (Komplete Audio 6 from NI) that has 6 channel.

I tried to change sample rate of both Background Music and Komplete Audio 6, (44100 hz for both or 44100 for one and 48000 for another) but it doesn't work.

Actually, I think the problem is that background music sends sound to 4 channels, when it should only use 2 (L and R).

Is there anyway to configure it somehow? Cheers

xCessivePressure commented 5 years ago

I have the same issue, except i'm using a different soundcard (Focusrite Scarlet 2i4).

Background music works fine with internal speakers of my laptop. However, when I switch to my soundcard, all sounds become distorted and chimpunk'ed.

directmusic commented 4 years ago

Wanted to add that I am noticing this on my Komplete Audio 6. And my friend noticed it as well on an Apollo Twin Mk2. So I tried all of the interfaces I own.

Working interfaces: Peavy USB-P Apogee Groove Samson Go Mic

Non-working: Komplete Audio 6 2 Apollo Twin Mk2 Duet 2 (older model) Zoom H4n (pitch was correct but had aliasing)

The only correlation I've found is that all of the working interfaces either have 0 or 1 input, and the non-working interfaces have 2 or more inputs.

dpkonofa commented 3 years ago

Just chiming in to say that I'm also having this issue with a Focusrite Clarett and can acknowledge that other, 2-channel devices work without issue. It only occurs on devices with multiple inputs/outputs.

kyleneideck commented 3 years ago

Thanks, everyone. What you're all suspecting is right. Background Music only works with 2-channel devices currently. It shouldn't be too hard to add support for other devices, but it was easier to start with 2-channel and no one's gotten around to extending it yet. I don't think there's a good workaround either.

If anyone's interested in having a go at it and making a PR, let me know and I'll explain in more detail.

dpkonofa commented 3 years ago

I would love to help but I would have no idea what I'm doing. If you want to give some direction, I would be willing to take a stab.

opeik commented 2 years ago

I'm using a TASCAM 208i, creating a Multi-Output Device seems to work around the issue.